Exploring the development of safety culture among physicians with text mining of patient safety reports: a retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Safety culture development is essential for patient safety in healthcare institution. Perceptions of patient safety and cultural changes are reflected in patient safety reports; however, they were rarely investigated. The aim of this study was to investigate the perception of physicians and to explore the development of safety culture using quantitative content analysis for patient safety reports.

Methods

A retrospective analysis of free descriptions of harmful patient safety reports submitted by physicians was performed. Natural language processing and text analysis were conducted using the "KH Coder." A co-occurrence analysis was performed in each period to identify and analyze the safety concepts. The study period was grouped into three for comparison.

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SUBMITTER: Koike D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11724187 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature